DOOR ARRANGEMENT FOR VEHICLES

• US 3,758,990 A
• Filed: 09/17/1971
• Issued: 09/18/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Constantin Balanos
• Original Assignee: Constantin Balanos
• Inventors: Balanos, Constantin
• Primary Examiner(s): Friaglia, Leo
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pekar, John A.
• Application Number:
  US05/181,332
• Time in Patent Office: 732 Days
• Field of Search: 296/146 49/153,149,246,248
• US Class Current: 49/153
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 5/047 characterised by the opening or closing movement

Abstract

A door arrangement for a door opening of a vehicle wherein hinge means and guide means interconnecting the door with the body of the vehicle are provided, the hinge and guide means including hinge struts and guide struts secured at one end to the vehicle body, and a rod member interconnecting the other ends of the hinge and guide struts. Releasable means are also provided for securing one of said hinge struts and said rod members to the door so that the door may be moved to an open position about the one end of the hinge and guide struts obliquely with respect to the plane of the door opening. Alternatively, the door may be accordingly moved to an open position about the one end of the hinge and guide struts perpendicularly with respect to the plane of the door opening.

Claims

1. A door arrangement for a door opening of a vehicle, comprising:

a door adapted to be moved into and out of said door opening;

hinge means and guide means interconnecting said door with the body of said vehicle near one end edge thereof;

said hinge and guide means comprising hinge struts and guide struts, one end of each said strut being pivotally secured to said vehicle body at points spaced from each other, the other end of said hinge struts being pivotally secured to said door, said hinge struts lying in the plane of said door in the closed position thereof;

selectively releasable means for rigidly securing said hinge struts to said door in their position in the plane of the closed door;

selectively releasable means for pivotally securing the other ends of said guide struts to said door spaced from the other ends of said hinge struts;

whereby with only the releasable means for securing the other ends of said guide struts to said door in place, said door is moved outwardly from said door opening and obliquely with respect to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle into an opened position in which it is partly located forwardly and inwardly of said one end edge of said vehicle body covering up said one end edge; and

whereby with only the releasable means for rigidly securing said hinge struts to said door in place said door is swung into an opened position about said one end of said hinge struts.

2. The door arrangement according to claim 1 wherein said releasable means for pivotally securing the other ends of said guide struts comprises a rod member pivotally secured to said other ends of said guide struts and said hinge struts in combination with means for rigidly securing said rod member to said door.